The Portland daily press., 1887-10-31

cord road. But the great northern feeder,
the Boston, Concord and Montreal, which
| runs from Concord up to Fabyan and Seott's
Mills, and piece of whose track our own
Ogdensburg uses from Fabyan to SCOTS
Mills the Boston 6 Maine will not probably
get They will not, therefore. be able to
freeze OUT the Concord road by getting all
OF lts northern connections. Nor will they be
able by building from Alton Bay to the Bos-
ton, Concord and Montreal near The Weirs
TO thereby secure a continuous line to the
Canadian Pacific via Rochester. The failure
OF the Boston & Maine to secure the Boston,
Concord and Montreal, therefore, will mean
It's failure to secure continuous through
line from Boston or Portland to the Canadian
Pacific and the West The Concord Railroad
ana the Portland q Ogdensburg stand in its
way The relations Of the Boston & Maine
to these two corporations, Therefore, will be
Of considerable interest.
SO far as the Concord and Boston g. Maine
ale concerned, there is room for considera-
Bile trouble in future The Concord railroad
holds majority Of the stock of the
Boston, Concord & Montreal and there
fore is expected to control it; but as
matter of fact the Boston & Maine ac-
tually does control it. This peculiar
situation came about in this way: Be-
fore the Concord bought the controlling
stock of the Boston. Concord g. Montreal.
the latter road was leased to the Boston &
Lowell, although on such conditions that the
Lowell could not transfer that lease to a
third party. But when the Lowell LEASED
itself to the Boston & Maine, the Boston,
Concord & Montreal was not included in the
lease for the reason that the Lowell had no
right to do such thing. Neither did the
Lowell return the road to its stockholders.
but has continued to manage it, although
these stockholders, majority Of whom are
now Concord Railroad people, have de-
maded their property back, and have gone
to the courts to get it. Senator Chandler is
Of the opinion that the stockholders will sue
deed in Wrestling the road from the Lowell,
and Boston g. Maine, and it is on his opin-
| ion mainly that, in the above summary of
the results of the defeat Of the Hazen bill,
the Boston, Concord & Montreal is not
included among the Boston & Names
| acquisition. With this suit decided, SO
competent judge as Senator Chandler
predicts the Concord will be secure in
its possession, and will be a great New
Hampshire line which must be in the way
OF the Boston & Names ambitions of West
ern connections. What are the possibilities
that the Concord win continue long to hold
its position? They are not any too certain.
The Boston & Maine controls already 5000
shares of Concord stock. There are two
persons in New Hampshire each of whom
holds enough Concord railroad stock to give
the road to the Boston & Maine were it adj
ded to these 5000 shares. Those two per-
sons are John III. Pearson, who has been the
great leader of the Concord fight, and Mrs
| Nathaniel White. If they should sell out,
says Secretary Chambers paper, the Con-
cord Monitor, "all the evils predicted by the
opponents of the Hazan bill may beset and
overrun the State. viii they sell out? 1t is
fervently to be hoped they never will"